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Arne Duncan vs. Fairness and the Rights of the Accused

The Obama administration has made campus sexual misconduct investigations more difficult, unfair, costly and legally risky.

Sept. 24, 2014 2:15 p.m. ET

The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has indeed "imposed onerous demands" on colleges like Princeton University in how they investigate sexual harassment and rape ("Presumed Guilty at Princeton," Review & Outlook, Sept. 18). By micromanaging how colleges conduct such investigations and pressuring them to stack the deck against accused students, the Obama administration has made investigations more difficult, unfair, costly and legally risky.